The IRS is violating its employees’ First Amendment rights by banning displays of pro-union materials in the workplace, the National Treasury Employees Union said in a federal lawsuit.
Internal Revenue Service leadership directed its facilities management arm to throw out NTEU materials displayed by agency employees, the latest in a series of Trump administration attacks on federal worker unions, according to the complaint filed Monday in US District Court for the District of Columbia.
The union is asking the federal court to block enforcement of the directive, which called for removal of all NTEU flyers in IRS offices and barred ...